April 12, 2016 marks the 5th announcement of IBM Power Systems based on the POWER8 processor technology. Here are my picks for the 5 Things to Know about the announcement, but be sure to keep an eye at the online resources as the announcement...

How has IBM impacted Computer Storage today and moving forward? IBM invented the hard disk drive (HDD) and brought it to market in 1956, the HDD which were considered secondary storage devices at that time. As technology advanced HDD were the primary...

Today Linux is the way to go for an ever growing set of companies that are embracing the open source movement across the board. If you are a loyal high end Power Systems client you should not miss this trend just because you value consolidation, performance,...

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What: Accelerate with ATS: Disk Options for IBM i This presentation describes the options for exploiting external disk with IBM i. Both direct attached and VIOS attached solutions will be discussed as well as the options that are available to improve business...

In the past few years, as IT continued to advance at breakneck speeds, rotational disk speeds have remained static with 7200RPM, 10K &15K drive offerings. Disk subsystems have adapted to overcome these speed limitations by deploying such tactics as, ...

So, you have some shiney new SSD drives plugged into your attached storage on your POWER 7 server. They look lovely and everything seems to run just that extra bit faster, but how do you get the best performance out of them and also ensure redundancy. SSD...

Last week I had a couple of meetings in Manchester (UK) with some SVC and V7000 end users, as well as the chance to pop in and say hi to our team in the IBM Manchester labs. About two days before heading up the M6 I was asked if I'd like to join in a...

If you store your VMware bits on external SAN or NAS-based disk storage systems, this post is for you. The subject of the post, VM Volumes , is a potential storage management game changer! Fellow blogger Stephen Foskett mentioned VM Volumes in his [...

IBM has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Texas Memory Systems, Inc. (TMS), a privately held Houston, Texas-based company with about 100 employees, that focuses on solid-state flash optimized systems and solutions, including the...

Configuring IBM Storwize V7000 and SVC for Optimal Performance Part 2 Thanks to everyone who responded to my Part 1 post, I'm amazed at how many people must read what I have to say! Based on the number of you that have either spoken to me in person, or...

As you may or may not have seen, IBM has agreed to acquire Texas Memory Systems : http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/38594.wss This has many implications (all good) for SVC, Storwize V7000, and Pure Systems. Better integration with existing...

One of the key benefits of the Storwize V7000 product is its built in Virtiualization capabilites. Or as some vendors like to call it Federation? Its been almost 9 years since we first released SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and in that time, its been through 6...

It was my birthday on Saturday and by pure luck my Raspberry Pi was delivered the day before - what a great day "hacking" (in the old sense of the word). I have been waiting for a few months for this delivery - What a treat!! If you have not heard...

Viewed 19817 times | Community Rating: 3.5 Originating Author: Wikibon Daemon This paper was written and submitted by NetApp and is being republished with permission. Flash Memory Technology in Enterprise Storage Flexible Choices to Optimize...

Truisms: SSD is fast SSD is expensive HDD are big HDD are cheap DB2 10 boasting a new and exciting feature which helps you place your data where it is most cost effective. Multi temperature data management not only allows you to place data at the most...

The updated XIV GUI that supports version 11.1 of the XIV software (which adds support for SSD Read Cache) is now available for download. This brings the XIV GUI to version 3.1 and you can download it for Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX from ...

The old adage applies "You can't please everyone. Presidents can't. Prostitutes can't. Nobody can." I am reminded of that as I fielded a variety of interesting comments and emails about, of all things, my choice of order of things in recent blog...

Have you ever noticed that sometimes two movies come out that seem eerily similar to each other, released by different studios within months or weeks of each other? My sister used to review film scripts for a living, she would read ten of them and have to...

Well, it's Tuesday again, and you know what that means! IBM Announcements! Typically, IBM System Storage has three to five major product launches per year. Making announcements every Tuesday would have been two frequent, and having one big announcement...

In July last year I blogged about a brief history of XIV . In that post I detailed how the XIV began as the Nextra, was then released as the IBM XIV and then updated to the XIV Gen3. So this means last year we saw release 3.0 of the XIV. At the risk of...